The book follows English professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates as she took the bard behind bars to a solitary confinement prison. One of the inmates however was trying to break out of prison, whilst Laura was trying to get Shakespeare in! Witness the beginning of an unlikely friendship bonded by Shakespeare and lasting years – a friendship that, in the end, would save more than one life.

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